I was revisiting my Github README article about incident communications the other day and noticed that many of the links I had put in my bio to Akamai’s public-facing incident management documentation had rotted away due to some intervening revision of the Akamai web site.
Since they provided valuable context and I had cause to want to refer to them in my client work, I went and tracked them down in the invaluable Internet Archive, and present now the links on their own as well as a fixed version of the bio with working links (and some paragraph breaks for readability).
And the updated (very casual) bio:
Hi there 🙂 I’m Kevin (@kevinr.free-dissociation.com).
While I learned to code while I learned to read and have loved computers my whole life, I realized pretty quickly after college that I wasn’t going to be happy spending the next forty years of my life sitting in a cubicle in a corner writing code and not talking to anybody.
After a bit of a sojourn I landed in security, which I love because it’s the intersection of the hardest technical problems we know (like cryptography) and the hardest social problems we know (like making cryptography usable by people).
I got my start in Infosec at Akamai, where I helped to redevelop our incident management process, train incident managers, and served as an incident manager myself on some gnarly and interesting incidents.
These days I have my own little shop, and I’m available for consulting on incident management as well as several other areas of security, privacy, and the broader emerging field of software safety. In my “spare time” I make videos on security and safety topics. 😉